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Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-01-07
The Unframed Wolf.

Probably no animal on the lemi-
sphere, with the exception of til tenn
perance orator, has so much noise
about it as the ordinary thirty pound
wolf that frequents the great West,
where hen-coops are thickest. When
it lifts up its voice and expresses it's
emotions, it makes the welllin ring I'M
til it can't rest; voice that starts out
in good shape with q plaintive wall,
and gradually expands until OF the end
it sounds like Midwest show on pay
day, and you involuntalily look at the
brute to see il it hasn't blown out a
lung or two.
Its voice is only equal to its appetite;
in fact, it is merely an unhappy COM
bination of noise and hunger. 1t can
cat supper that would give rhi-
noceros the collie, and then sit out on the
hilltop and howl for more, in a voice
that makes the windows rattle from
Dan to Bersheba and all way-stations.
It can tackle a sheep that outweighs
itself by thirty pounds eat it in ten
minutes. wool and all, and then howl
i'll an agony OF hunger.
The color is soft yellow-the color
of English whiskers- and it has Ian
guild, m,1slAy smell about it that's also
quite English, ye know. II can also
eat eggs with capacity for eighteen
gross at meal, which likewise re-
minds me of an ancient British custom.
The wolf is the most elusive of
beasts as we'll. and knows more about
shotgun than half of us know about
the New Testament. You can aim ut
him until you know you can't miss, and
when you have fired, and the smoke
has cleared away, and you look around
to see if the wolf is ready to attend it's
own funeral, you find it sitting far off
in the bright summer sun, spinning off
a ten-foot installment of derisive howl,
which has such o strong under-current
ofsarcasm in it that you feellike taking
brace of pills to get the taste out Of
your mouth. Awolf can't be shot.
The happiest moment of its long and
eventful life is when somebody is
wasting good powder attempting to
perforate it, for then it can look at him
with calm and steadfast eye and Issue
a holiday edition of yells. The only
way to triumph over it and see the film
Of death gather in its eyes is to soak
some fowl in muriatic acid and leave it
where the wolf will find it.
The latter, having a bad sense of
taste, will eat the fowl and never know
that it is adulterated, until cold, clammy
pains begin to chase each other through
its system, and the perspiration
gathers on its brow, and it's pelvic bone
sticks out of it's ears, and then it sees
that it's victim of mans duplicity; it's
tail troops low; it casts a despairing
glance behind it, and then seeks some
shady spot, gives one farewell howl
that makes the welllin tired, and dies.
-WNH. Mason, I'M The TVhiD.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-01-07
A TRAGEDY.
III p11.L NYR.

Dat where the blue waves come and 60.
Out where yhe zephyrs kiss the strand,
Down where he damp tides ebb and flow,
Where Che ocean monkeys with the sand,
William. tho hungry, rustles for his meal,
Slim William, the eelist, gathers the Gel.
Up where THO iolanny jun1p-ups smile.
Up where the green bills meet the sky,
Where. out from her window for many o MILE
She watcheg the blue sea dimpling lie.
Tho vito OF tho eelist, wish visage grim.
Sits i'll the glosmsug and watches for him.
Down in the moist aad moaning sea,
Down where the day can never come,
With staring eyes that can never see
Aud liIs that VIII ever continue bumb,
With coils in his breast, in q large wet wave,
William is (ilting Wntery grave.
Up w,1ero the catnip is breathing hard,
Up where the taEsy is fecked with dew.
Where tho vesper snft as the onion peels
Wakons the echees the twilight through,
The new-lnade widow still watches the shore
And sits thorc' and waits, as enid before.
They come and tell her the pitiful tale,
With trembling voice and tear dmmed eye
They watch her cheek grow slightly pale,
Yet wonder at the calm reply:
sAll our tears are bat idle. gentlemen.
Go bring in the cells and set him asainF
-UQStQn Globe.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-01-07
No Change in the Violin.

1t is remarkable that while the piano
has arrived at its present stage of per-
lection through evolution, like man
from very inferior creation, as Darwin
believed, the violin in its earliest stages
was at its best, and the efforts of all
fiddle makers to-day are directed to-
wards initiating, as far as possible, the
early models. They don't dare to
change curve or a swell. nor vary in
the slightest manner those queer f.
shaped openings. The young man who
plays the fiddle may come and go, but
the same fiddle remains forever
TeGas Sifti7ags.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-01-07
A Shoemaker and a Naturalist.

Shoemakers have always made good
naturalists. The latest instance re-
ported of shoemaker devoting himself
with success to scientific pursuits occurs
in Holstein. In the little Holstein vii
lage of Segeberg there lives a plain
octogenarian shoemaker called Hone
ZACH, who for great number of Years
has, while following the gentle craft,
devoted himself to the study and collec-
ton OF beetles. He has gathered to-
gether no fewer than 2,563 different
kinds Of beetles, 1880 being native and
LIB foreign. The whole collection is
reported to be we'll preserved, and to
be scientifically named and classified,
Its value being from scientific point of
view very great.
Not only does shoemaker Honelach
possess unique acquaintance with the
habits of beetles but he can boast a
familiarity with the biological circum-
stances OF Holstein beetles which for
one IN his humble condition is regarded
as almost incredible. Entomologists of
foreign countries who desire information
respecting the beetles of Schleswick-
Holstein have only to go to the simple
shoemaker of Segeberg in order to learn
all that is known. Though so years
old, Honelach is said to be as devoted
as ever to his favorite studies, and to be
constantly adding to his extensive col
lections.--Pa Mall Gazette
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-01-07

STRIKE man, use him with violence,
and the memory of that blow, be it in
act or word, will engender feelings OF
hatred in him against you SO long as, bis
life lasts.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-01-07

AFTER all" said the baker, as he
walked hol1s from an astronomical lee
turnover"
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-01-07

on the same sum, boarding herself,
would probably scorn less. But, once
give her patrons, she might find her
life both easier and more healthful; and
the tire-house mother. seeing the econ
omy and the relief, would wonder why
they did not do it before. Under the
present system the thrifty women fret
and tire themselves over the endless
task; the sentimentally philanthropic
and the unthrifty give away to the in
crease of poverty often; and the old
clothes men profit by the improvidence
of the bachelors and husbands.
A little more cooperation everywhere
would tighten women's work. Here. for
instance, in town of 1000 inhabitants
one woman for years made her pin
money by weekly brewing of yeast for
her neighbors. She has gone out of
the business now, her husband object
ing; and the women are lamenting the
lost convenience. Yeast in plenty at
the grocery-patent yeast; but they all
prefer the homemade when they can
get it. SO, could they once get it, they
would prefer the neighborhood member.
-Lippi71cotts Magazine.
Some of Our Most Successful Men We're
Country Boys.
Boys raised in the city no doubt en-
Joy their surroundings They have q
great many so-called advantages, and
yet never since the world began has
the city-bred youth had any advantage
over the boy raised in the country. In
all professions, in every department of
life, the country boy has tremendous
advantage. There are many reasons
why this should be so, but the princi-
pal reason is that the country boy ac-
quires and retains an individuality that
is of immense service to him in after
life. He acquires and retains an indie
pendence that is better than any mod
ern business training. Beyond the dis
cipline of home he has no master. He
falls into no routine methods. He re-
mains himself. His mind is left to form
itself, regardless of all limitations. He
is taught the value, the honesty, and
the necessity Of labor, but he is not
made slave of, and his condition is in
every respect different from that of the
city boy who is compelled to earn his
own living. If the latter is to engage
in business he begins by selecting
something that society" considers re-
spectacle. He starts as o cash-boy, be-
comes clerk, and this. in nine cases
out of ten, is the history of his career.
He is driven and hurried; he is in
terror of losing his place; and if he
keeps his place he loses his individu-
ality, and more serious loss no boy
can suffer. It is great pity that the
census does not deal with this impor-
tant question. The most successful
men in Atlanta are those who were
country-bred-men who have touched
that great training-school, the farm, at
some point in their history; and At
lanta is not singular in this respect.
The same may be said of every town
and city in the United States. Wher-
ever the conspicuously successful man
is to be found it may be taken for
granted that he is country-bred. There
fore, we advise the country lads who
are fretting and pining to take heart.
Their time will surely come. They
will find their opportunity.-Atzamta
Constitution.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-01-07

WHAT tree may be said to resemble
tt, remains Of a fine Havana cigar p
The white ash.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1887-03-27
Traditions Of the Eskimos.

But, speaking Of traditions, I might say
that these people possess q great many Of
them. 1t is, however, very difficult TO in.
duce an Eskimo TO speak Of such things or
OF his religious beliefs. The only way of
extracting such information from an Es-
kimo is to make him your friend, and then
getting him away from his companions
promise that you will not tell them what
he may tell you, and having done this TO
draw him step by step into the line Of
conversation you want 10 get at.
One Of their traditions is about the food,
and think IL is particularly interesting,
as il is one Of many similar legends held
by the savage tribes. The Eskimos say
that a very long time ago there was a
great ram, which flooded the earth and
destroyed all men except a few who con.
structed a large boat out Of q number Of
small ones and used IL as q means OF
escape. After a yhile the poor creatures,
being exposed 10 the fury OF the storm in
their open boat, began TO be cold and I'M
comfortable; so their chief, standing up,
threw his spears and ornaments into the
waters, and this was sufficient 70 pacify
them and they subsidized. They have also
y romantic legend about the origin Of the
sur and moon.-Toronto Mail.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1887-03-27
Theatre Mt Salt Lake CITY,

The theatre is a large, well proper
toned building, with four galleries, rather
dingy, but much better than any theatre
in eastern towns Of the size of Salt Lake
City. The audience was largely composed
of women. Groups Of four or six of these
were attended by one man, and many of
them came quite without escort. They
were dressed, If without taste, still with
out yulgarity, and among the younger ones
saw several very pretty girlish faces, some
Of which would have been more attract
i've II an improvement IN natures colors
had not been attempted
The appearance Of the men was in
flnitely repulsive. Coarse and heavy faces
they had, for the most part, with a stupid,
animal expression. / had almost written
british. Hard faces, toe, without mobil-
ity or kindness. They wear the beard
full, with the upper lip shaver. IL the
mouth is the telltale feature of the face,
as is often said, IL is as well, possibly, that
the majority Of mankind wear it covered,
for the tale these Mormon mouths told
was was not q pleasant one to read. Many
~nationalities were to be traced In the as
sembly-pale faced Swedes and ruddy
Welsh folk; the sandy Scotchman was not
wanting, nor yet the swarthy Chinese; but
best among them all to see was the deli
cate face Of a Gentle, a young officer from
the fort near by, sitting alone amidst a
group Of saints, who regarded him with
anything but amiable glances .-Cor. Bos-
ton Transcript.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1887-03-27
A Popular FaIlncy,

II is a popular fallacy hat the use Of
glasses should be delayed as long as pos
sible, for fear they will become indis-
pensable. The fact is that among civ
ilized reading and thinking beings who
have any proper appreciation Of the value
Of time they have already become indis-
pensable TO those who can work more
easily with them than without them. We
have all better use for our strength than
TO waste IL in a gymnastic contest against
time, when we are sure to be losers in the
end.
BY working the ciIlary muscle very
hard We can overcome the rigidity OF the
lens even after II has ceased TO respond
to ordinary efforts. But persistence in
such effort merely obliges us to close our
books earlier in the day, and lose in time
what cannot be made up by the satisfac-
ton Of being still independent Of glasses.
WEAKNESS, neuralgia, nervous prostra-
ton and other ills are the rewards of too
great obstinacy in such a course. Glasses
bear the same relation to civilized life as
surface cars, carriages and other modern
co~nyeniences. We could get along with
out them. But why should wei-Harper's
Bazaar.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1887-03-27
italian Citizen. Of BrooLIyp.

In South Brooklyn there are shanties or
rather wooden houses In the last stage OF
dilapidation around the factories, which
shelter a vast number OF Italians. Some
times a door swings open and lets out q
vile, pestiferous odor, partly from the
rags which the Calabrians are shifting and
sorting, partly from uhe Calabrians them
selves. They appear to be very degraded
citizens, indeed, and are more animal and
less rational than is safe In a republican
country. On Sunday one may hear from
these novels a perfect series OF what one
supposes to be violent threats, In staccato
accents; but IL is nothing Of the kod, only
two ragpickers playing the national game
OF NORA, which consists Of throwing into
the air so many fingers and guessing how
many there are appraised In the four grimy
hands. They are wonderfully expert and
yell out the numbers with lightning like
rapidity, but the one that loses il gener.
ally tempted TO settle accounts with his
sheath knife-perfectly proper in the Bas-
ilicuta or In the Calabrian mountains, but
not exactly the thing In Brooklyn
Brooklyn Eagle.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1887-03-27
soui DESTROYING and BODY Wearing.

A postofice employe who has worn the
uniform OF Uncle Sam since the days fol-
lowing the close Of the war, when no
doffsd the blue to don the gray, wants to
know II I realize the mount Of heart
breaking, soul destroying and body wear.
ing labor that postofhce clerks are called
upon 10 undergo. take it,, he remarks,
''in this department, for instance-that OF
registered mail matter. II Is work, work,
work from early morning until late ut
night, and when II is all done, what Is
there to show for IT. Nothing; absolutely
nothing. A mass of records and a column
of figures, it is true, but these tell little
Of the expenditure of brain tissue and the
wear and tear upon physical endurance
which their making up entails. Hundreds
Of thousands OF dollars, in valuable docu-
ments and packages, pass through the
hands Of the clerks in this department an
nually. The government guarantees an
absolutely safe delivery, and its guarantee
is religiously fulfilled. The slightest slip
carries with 1t the penalty Of dismissal.
A small army Of special agents keep the
employees under constant surveillance and
espionage.
"A man must have the postof1ces OF
the country on his tongue and fingers
end. He must be prepared TO supply de-
f~iciencies in addresses, furnish the m
Of county and state for any given town,
and be thoroughly familiar with the rates
of postage, foreign and domestic. The
kind and quality Of ~questionings to which
he is subjected every day Of his expert
ence would make q volume Of interesting
and instructive reading; and he must have
the patience Of a job and the philosophy
of a Diogenes TO shield him from bringing
down upon his head the wrath and venge-
fulness Of u~nreasoning, illiterate and heed
less customers Of the p~ostofice depart
ment. A mail clerks lot, under the best
conditions, is not ordinarily a happy one;
but the holder Of a responsible position in
the registered letter branch of the service
is a long way removed from occupying q
sinecure position brooklyn Eagle.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1887-03-27
VINO Wrote the "Bonny Blue Flag"

Referring TO the statement contained in
o letter published in The Avalanche some
weeks ago, to the effect that Judge Wiley
p. Harris, of this city, first suggested the
Meas to Harry McCarty, the author Of
the "Bonny Blue Flag" upon which that
famous song was originated, set to music
and taken up and sung from one end OF
Dixie land TO the other. That eminent
turist, who bears the unquestioned repu-
tation Of being the greatest Of Mississippi's
lawyers, says that while he has no definite
recollection Of the matter, shat it is quite
probable that he did say something TO Nc
Carly about it" but he has a more def
mite recollection of the solemnity of the
occasion on the day Mississippi seeded,
Col Power, now proprietor Of The Clarion,
says that he himself set up the "Bonny
Blue Flag with his own hands; that
Harry McCarty brought it L him and
told him that Judge Harris had made the
suggestion to him upon which he had
written the song. Judge Harris makes
no claim, he says, to the literary merit Of
McCarty's lines.-Cor. Memphis Ava.
1anche
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1887-03-27

Parents make a great mistake in teach
ing their children TO be afraid Of police
men. have often heard them threaten
ing as n punishment TO send for the brass
buttoned officials 10 come and take them
70 prison. The consequence is that the
little ones learn TO regard a cop with ter
ror whenever they see one. You would
be surprised TO know how generally this
sentiment is implanted in the minds Of
children under 8 or 10 years Of age, and
what hinderance II causes the department
In aiding them TO find their homes when
they happen to get lost. Policemen, as a
rule, are fond Of children, and | think that
for the latters' safety they should he
taught to look on every one Of us as their
friend, TO whom they would first think OF
appealing whenever they might be in
trouble Police Sergeant in Globe Demo
crnt
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1887-03-27
Locusts Seeking the Light.

Professor J. S. Newberry gives a most
marked illustration Of what appears to be
development Of instinct approaching rea-
o in one of the low forms of life. The
grub of the 17-year locust buries itself
deep in the ground, aud only energies aft
Or its period Of seventeen years is ended.
At Railway, n. j. a house has beer
erected above a spot where some Of thes
Qubs had buried Themselves. At the ex-
piration Of their period the grubs started
on their way TO the surface, but emerged
into the cellar, where they We're yet in the
dark. In order 10 reach the light they
began building small structures, and
when first noticed the floor of the cellar
Was found covered with small cones,
some of them more than six inches high,
which these cicadas had built in their ex-
ertions to traverse the dark cavity to the
Hight above ground Boston Budget.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1887-03-27
The sick I'm Chinatown.

Perhaps the most forbidding feature Of
Chinese life is the neglect Of the sick and
the suffering. Ill fares the coolie that
falls sick in Chinatown. He may be pro-
vided with the necessaries Of life by his
society, but Of medical attendance or
proper care he Will get none. Nearly every
week the police discover some wretched
unfortunate that has been left 10 die in an
underground den by unnatural relatives
or friends. Slow starvation in a noisome
cellar, in the horror Of thick darkness,
With vermin swarming over the helpless
sufferer-such is the fate that has befallen
many a poor creature In Chinatown
George II. Fitch in the Cosmopolitan.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1887-03-27
A CHAMBER SCENE.

Tread softly thro' these amorous rooms,
For every bough II hung with life,
And kisses I'm harmonious strife,
Unlooss their sharp and winged perfumes
From Afric and the Persian looms,
The carpets silken leaves have sprung;
And heaven, In Its blue bounty, dung
nese starry flowers and azure blooms
fsead SOFTLY by . creature fair
IN deity Of love reposes;
His red lips open, like the roses
Which round his hyacinthine hair 9.
Hang In crimson ~corQnAls;
And passion fills the trched halls;
And beauty npats upon the air.
Tread softly, like the foot
OF winter shod with fieecy snow,
who cometh white, and cold, and mute,
Lest be should wake the spring below,
Obi look, for hee lie love and youth,
Fair spirits Of the heart and mind;
Alasi that one should stray from truth.
And one be ever, ever blindi
-Byran W. Proctor.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1887-03-27
Legal Companies W. Individual Lawyer

Legal Companies ". Individual Lawyers.
One Of the advantages Of legal education
- said 10 be that 1t keeps u nan from
going TO Law. and in this sense the newly
Aedged attorneys and councillors Of our bar
vii, IL they do not practice their profess
sion, exercise q salutary effect upon them
selves. am told by a prominent lawyer
that the chances Of u young man for prac.
uce in u great cities have been seriously
diminished by the business like methods
which have been introduced into the pro-
fession. The examination Of titles, for
instance, is now 10 a considerable extent
performed by companies, and collecting
agencies do much OF the work which used
to give support TO the mercantile lawyers.
But Webster's saying, that there is DON
enough at the top, is as true Of the profes-
sion of the law as il was in his day.-Bos-
ton Post.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1887-03-27
Mayor HEWITT. Trouble.

One Of Mayor INwitt's friends says that
Ill the mayors troubles arises from his
inability TO wear flannel underclothing.
Winter or summer, sunshine OF sleet
storms, Nj. Hewitt can wear no harsher
or thicker undergarments than the thin
nest silk. "If he would or could only put
on heavy fiannels," said DIR. Herrick the
other other day, "we'd have him down
town In o lily. New York Sun.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1887-03-27

Thinking that n is thinking is not
thinking. To think is 10 hold a thought
as In a wise till IL is measured, weighed
and put in proper relation TO the subject
under consideration. Many q man has
spent a whole morning under the delusion
that he was thinking when he was nearly
ssleep. -Christian Advocate.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1887-03-27
Tue Marquis Tsepg In Shanghai

The Marquis Tseng, since his return
from Europe, goes put 10 drive in the for
eign quarter OF Shanghai every day in q
landau drawn by q pair Of white ponies.
II Is thought that his example will induce
other high Chinese officers 10 adopt Euro
mean customs Chicago Times.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1887-03-27
The Ethics Of GeutiIity.

Mrs. Hannah Whithall Smith is said to
be engaged in the work of teaching WASH
ington ladies the ethics ~ pentility. She
has discovered that none Of them know
how 10 express disdain In n how nor how
to crush an asplrant by a slow half turn
TO the right.-Detrolt Free Press.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1887-03-27

Mark Twain il said 10 have 81, 600, 900
safely invested in such O way that he can't
- taxed q red cent on IL, and his wife
can't marry AGAIN II he dies and enjoy q
dollar Of Il. He isn't funny any more.
He doesn't have to be.-Detroit Free
Pres.